Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being innocuous; harmlessness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Innocuousness.
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- noun
innocuousness
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Examples
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This gives a compound or twopenny sensation of the unspeakable, combined with absolute innocuity, like a vegetarian chop or a temperance champagne.
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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The European team needed to verify if the requirements imposed in 2008 had been fulfilled, after the Uruguayan market was closed for want of guarantees as far as the innocuity of foods exported to Europe.
MercoPress 2009
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